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« on: September 28, 2007, 05:26:55 AM »

Dear Mideasterners,

I would like to thank you one last time for your support these past few months.  At 1:00 P.M. today, I will no longer be your Governor, but I have full faith that HappyWarrior will lead this Region in a direction that will be beneficial to all of you.

I wish Lt. Governor Hashemite the best of luck during his A.G. Senate Confirmation hearing.

I would also like to wish Governor Polnut good luck on his Presidential campaign.

Finally, I encourage all of you who have not yet voted on any of the 3 currently proposed amendments to do so as soon as possible.  Democracy is what founded this nation, and it is your duty to vote.

I hope that I will have the privilege to serve you again in the future.

Good night, and good luck,
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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2007, 09:48:18 AM »

Dear Mideasterners,

I would like to thank you one last time for your support these past few months.  At 1:00 P.M. today, I will no longer be your Governor, but I have full faith that HappyWarrior will lead this Region in a direction that will be beneficial to all of you.

I wish Lt. Governor Hashemite the best of luck during his A.G. Senate Confirmation hearing.

I would also like to wish Governor Polnut good luck on his Presidential campaign.

Finally, I encourage all of you who have not yet voted on any of the 3 currently proposed amendments to do so as soon as possible.  Democracy is what founded this nation, and it is your duty to vote.

I hope that I will have the privilege to serve you again in the future.

Good night, and good luck,
Inks.LWC
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12 pm, not 1;)
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Queen Mum Inks.LWC
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2007, 01:41:57 PM »

Dear Mideasterners,

I would like to thank you one last time for your support these past few months.  At 1:00 P.M. today, I will no longer be your Governor, but I have full faith that HappyWarrior will lead this Region in a direction that will be beneficial to all of you.

I wish Lt. Governor Hashemite the best of luck during his A.G. Senate Confirmation hearing.

I would also like to wish Governor Polnut good luck on his Presidential campaign.

Finally, I encourage all of you who have not yet voted on any of the 3 currently proposed amendments to do so as soon as possible.  Democracy is what founded this nation, and it is your duty to vote.

I hope that I will have the privilege to serve you again in the future.

Good night, and good luck,
Inks.LWC
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12 pm, not 1;)

Eastern Standard Time - we're running on Eastern Daylight Time.
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2007, 01:54:59 PM »

I might have better things to say to you right now if you hadn't sent me a PM asking me to consider invalidating my own vote in the End of Districts Amendment voting booth.
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2007, 02:12:27 PM »

I might have better things to say to you right now if you hadn't sent me a PM asking me to consider invalidating my own vote in the End of Districts Amendment voting booth.

OK - I sent that PM to everybody.  It's just good old healthy lobbying.
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2007, 02:26:26 PM »

I might have better things to say to you right now if you hadn't sent me a PM asking me to consider invalidating my own vote in the End of Districts Amendment voting booth.

OK - I sent that PM to everybody.  It's just good old healthy lobbying.

I call it voter harrassment, but tomayto tomahto.
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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2007, 02:27:38 PM »

Wasn't this the kid whining about Al editing/deleting his vote?
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« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2007, 03:38:31 PM »

Wasn't this the kid whining about Al editing/deleting his vote?

That was illegal.  How is lobbying for a vote illegal.
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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2007, 03:39:28 PM »

Wasn't this the kid whining about Al editing/deleting his vote?

That was illegal.  How is lobbying for a vote illegal.

You told someone to go back into the voting booth and deliberately invalidate his vote...
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« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2007, 03:42:11 PM »

Wasn't this the kid whining about Al editing/deleting his vote?

That was illegal.  How is lobbying for a vote illegal.

You told someone to go back into the voting booth and deliberately invalidate his vote...

No - I said that I asked all people who had already voted to reconsider their vote, and if they they decided that they really don't like the amendment, after reading all of the arguments against it, that they should at least invalidate their vote so that they aren't supporting something they really don't support.

You didn't get the message, so don't tell me what I told someone.
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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2007, 03:43:07 PM »

Wasn't this the kid whining about Al editing/deleting his vote?

That was illegal.  How is lobbying for a vote illegal.

You told someone to go back into the voting booth and deliberately invalidate his vote...

No - I said that I asked all people who had already voted to reconsider their vote, and if they they decided that they really don't like the amendment, after reading all of the arguments against it, that they should at least invalidate their vote so that they aren't supporting something they really don't support.

You didn't get the message, so don't tell me what I told someone.
yeah, You told someone to go back into the voting booth and deliberately invalidate his vote.
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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2007, 03:45:02 PM »

Wasn't this the kid whining about Al editing/deleting his vote?

That was illegal.  How is lobbying for a vote illegal.

You told someone to go back into the voting booth and deliberately invalidate his vote...

No - I said that I asked all people who had already voted to reconsider their vote, and if they they decided that they really don't like the amendment, after reading all of the arguments against it, that they should at least invalidate their vote so that they aren't supporting something they really don't support.

You didn't get the message, so don't tell me what I told someone.
yeah, You told someone to go back into the voting booth and deliberately invalidate his vote.

If they feel like they voted the wrong way on the amendment.
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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2007, 03:48:36 PM »

A vote is private. You don't tell people how to vote or even less to go back and change it because you didn't like their vote. That's Soviet way.

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« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2007, 03:49:17 PM »

A vote is private. You don't tell people how to vote or even less to go back and change it because you didn't like their vote. That's Soviet way.



I didn't tell people - I asked.  And voting is public.  It used to be private, but we got rid of that.
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« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2007, 03:51:21 PM »

A vote is private. You don't tell people how to vote or even less to go back and change it because you didn't like their vote. That's Soviet way.



I didn't tell people - I asked.  And voting is public.  It used to be private, but we got rid of that.

No you didn't understand me. The way you vote is up to one person only. Apart from the USSR.
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« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2007, 03:52:05 PM »

[I'll post the PM if anyone is really interested/want to see it for themselves]
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« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2007, 03:55:49 PM »

LOL

Inks, you silly hypocrite.
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« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2007, 04:07:08 PM »

Amusing
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« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2007, 04:32:40 PM »


At least what I did was legal.
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« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2007, 04:36:27 PM »

This whole thread - lol.
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« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2007, 04:53:27 PM »

Oh this is just rich. Very Amusing.

First off, it's okay to contact people via PM and ask them to come out and vote, and to vote for what you support, I'm fine with that and I've done that in several campaigns over the years. Telling people to go back and invalidate their votes because they didn't vote the way you wanted? Now that's pretty damn close to voter intimidation. We have a public voting system because a secret voting system was just too unwieldy to introduce and it took the fun out of live, real-time results for the election. We do not have them so people can go around soliciting voters to invalidate their votes because they didn't vote the right way. Some people have done this in the past, if they did consider that they had voted wrongly, however this is a personal, and quite controversial, choice and is not one that you should be openly encouraging people to do.
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« Reply #21 on: September 28, 2007, 05:09:39 PM »


You weren't lobbying for a vote, you were lobbying for someone to commit an act which is technically illegal. I don't know about how the common law rules on conspiracy apply in the U.S. (and so by implication in Atlasia) so I can't say for sure whether or not your action could be construed as criminal/illegal in nature.
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« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2007, 05:11:43 PM »

[I'll post the PM if anyone is really interested/want to see it for themselves]

The issue of the publication of PMs has arisen before in Atlasia and caused considerable controversy in itself. I'd advise against.

However, as Inks claims his act was totally innocent and above board, I'm surprised he hasn't proffered it himself yet.
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« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2007, 05:13:13 PM »

When someone does something unethical via PM, they can shirk the controversy by instead alleging a massive invasion of privacy when someone ends up posting the PM.

It works every time, because certain people around here have extremely messed up priorities.
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« Reply #24 on: September 28, 2007, 06:23:13 PM »

In fairness to Inks, the PM did not 'tell' me to do anything.  As he has said, he was merely urging me to review my decision, and if I felt like it, I could edit or delete my 'Aye' vote in order to invalidate it.  The same message was sent to at least eight other Mideasterners.

This, however, is what I view as borderline harrassment and an encouragement to do something technically illegal (as Jas put it).


N.B.Sad As a general tip for anybody else who ever feels like campaigning for my vote for anything by PM, I don't usually react to it the way you'd like.  Be warned.
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